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Astrid Swan – Hits (Pavement For Girls)

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Soliti will release Astrid Swan’s new album Hits (Pavement For Girls) next wednesday 17th of august. Like you probably guessed, it is a Pavement cover album. Generally speaking, I don’t care much for cover albums but I do care for Astrid and I do care for Pavement. Therefore I gave the album a chance to win my heart over and I’ve been really enjoying it. These sounds have made some tough work days much more bearable. You can judge yourself by listening to Shady Lane below. If you enjoy it, work your way to by far the best finnish music website nrgm.fi. You can listen to the whole record on their website for the next week or so.

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Astrid Swan at Facebook
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Fountains Of Wayne – Sky Full Of Holes

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Fountains Of Wayne is regarded as one of the best pop bands in the world here at the onechord.net headquarters. However, I was mildly disappointed with the previous album Traffic and Weather. It was a hit and miss album. There were some absolute FOW classics like Fire In The Canyon, but also some songs I did not like at all. Therefore I had some doubts when I bought the new album last week when it was released, but oh my. There’s not a thing to worry about. Sky Full Of Holes is a really solid pop album from start to finish and Schlesinger/Collingwood have once again written a bunch of fantastic pop songs.

This is Richie & Ruben:

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Fountains Of Wayne Website

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The Red Button – As Far As Yesterday Goes

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This entry is also a reminder to myself. I need to order the new The Red Button album asap. The debut album She’s About To Cross My Mind was a slice of 60’s influenced power pop heaven and the follow-up As Far As Yesterday Goes has been out for a while now. Based on the sound samples on The Red Button website, Seth Swirsky and Mike Ruekberg have once again created a fabulous pop album.

This is the wonderful Cruel Girl from the debut album:

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The Red Button Website

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Video of the Day #69: Mirel Wagner

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I’ve already written about finnish blues/folk singer-songwriter Mirel Wagner a few times (review) and therefore I’ll keep things short this time around. This is the new video for the song entitled No Death and it is so utterly wonderful. The song is an outtake from her amazing self-titled debut album that was released in february, 2011.

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Mirel Wagner at Facebook

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